A motivated Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16IAX10H) owner has successfully gotten their system’s speaker issues fixed after setting up a bug bounty program on GitHub. Nadim Kobeissi, a Linux user, was fed up with the gaming laptop’s “tinny and muffled” speaker output and suspected an issue with the Realtek codec on the open-source OS. Kobeissi posted the project in October with $500 of their own money, and five others pledged their own funds, bringing the total to $2,000. Now the issue has been solved, and the fixer is getting $2,000 from the community that developed around this rallying call.
Bug bounties have proved to be a worthwhile avenue for even the biggest developers to explore – Apple, Google, and Microsoft are among the big-dollar program organizers. In this instance, it is interesting to see this level pulled on a much smaller scale, but for a quick and successful fix.
